Something You Should Know About Me

Something you should all know about me and my approach to beauty is that I'm fundamentally lazy.

I'll call it low maintenance, minimal, whatever, but at it's very core, it's all about the laze.

I know it sounds weird, considering how much time and money I devote to beauty products, but when it comes to actually using everything on a daily basis, I'm all about streamlining.

So when it comes to taking off my makeup at the end of the day, I'm all about skipping steps. Which is one of the reasons I always loved the Almay Oil-Free Eye Makeup remover pads. I literally enjoy being able to skip the step of getting out one of those little cotton pads and putting the liquid on the pad. Plus, only one thing to buy at the store. See what I'm saying? Lazy.

But, blogger can not live on one makeup removal product alone, so I picked up a bottle of Benefit Cosmetics Gee...That Was Quick! Now, despite the awesomely suggestive name, this stuff is not that quick. It removes eye makeup, but with a couple of passes and I can still get smudges the next morning when I wake up.

Which means I need to remove AGAIN.

Which is way too much work for me.

Singin' the Blues

Wow, there were so many cheesy and cliche titles I could have come up with for this post.

As previously mentioned about a gajillion times on my blog, I'm kind of a sucker for the Next Hot Thing.

My name is Capitol Hill Barbie, and I'm a trend whore.

All together now, "Hi Barbie."

Sometimes this pans out, other times, not so much. So when I recently hightailed it to Sephora to try out the latest rage, blue mascara, I was anticipating a minor disaster. More George Bush referring to the web as the "internets," less Britney exiting a car on a Saturday night.

I was surprised with the result that it looked kind of cool. I sampled Benefit BadGal Blue, which is apparently EXCLUSIVE to Sephora. I noticed that it made my eyes a little brighter and whiter. I layered it over the existing mascara, so the look was subtle, meaning that my fiance looked at me like I was an escapee from St. Elizabeth's when I asked him how it looks.

Whatever! He was wearing sandals with socks when I met him!

So I was pleasantly pleased with the results. However, I had a little sticker shock when I checked the price tag. So I scoured Sephora for some other options, and found that their house brand (which I've been hot and bothered about lately. seriously, it's like Wet n' Wild for the yippie set.) makes a few options like the Triple Action Mascara and the Mascara Fantastic Color for a much more reasonable cost.

While I liked the effects of the blue mascara, I considered carefully that it doesn't really fit into my (working in a ridonculously untrendy environment) lifestyle, and I passed it up. And then I think I bought my 30th pink lipgloss.

Hi, my name is Capitol Hill Barbie and I'm a lip gloss-a-holic.

Once more, and with feeling..."Hi, Barbie."

photo courtesy of sephora.com